Books Quote by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“Nothing is invented, for it’s written in nature first. Originality consists of returning to the origin.”

— Dan Brown

“Nature is transcendental, exists primarily, necessarily, ever works and advances, yet takes no thought for the morrow.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The whole conception of 'sin' is one which I find very puzzling, doubtless owing to my sinful nature.”

— Bertrand Russell

It ought to be the first endeavour of a writer to distinguish nature from custom; or that which is established because it is right,…

— Samuel Johnson

Notwithstanding their attacks on the basic conception of rationalism, on synthetic a priori judgments, that is, material propositions that cannot be contradicted by any…

— Max Horkheimer

“Nature will always be natural, the tutor had told me. For what is ever not natural? Even lies are just a kind of weather.…

— Miranda Mellis

“Truth has no nature, for truth is nature.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature; what we call by that misleading name is merely heredity…

— Mark Twain

“Nature may be defined as that which exists without guilt.”

— John Updike

“Sin is intentional and irrational at the same time.”

— Byron Forrest Yawn

“Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“[M]an cannot be wicked without being evil, nor evil without being degraded, nor degraded without being punished, nor punished without being guilty. In short…

— Joseph de Maistre